Silvio Berlusconi told to apologise by woman he met at corporate event after ‘joking crudely with her about sex’
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 21, 2013 1:12
An Italian woman has demanded an apology from Silvio Berlusconi after he crudely joked with her about sex, days before a national election.
The former Prime Minister asked the woman at a corporate event how many times she enjoyed sex and if he could look at her bottom.
He made his remarks in front of a giggling crowd of business people, male and female.
Angela Bruno, a 30-year-old employee of a renewable energy firm, was presenting a contract to Berlusconi at a recent ceremony when the former prime minister asked her suggestive questions in front of senior colleagues, staff and members of the public.
A video of the exchange has been viewed more than 950,000 times on YouTube and has sparked outrage on social networks.
Miss Bruno told an Italian TV channel that her 13-year-old daughter had cried for days after seeing a video of the encounter, and the response it provoked.
‘I want an apology for all Italian women because they should not have to suffer insults like this, at work or outside work,’ she said. ‘This is theItalyI don’t want any more and I hope no one wants.’
The 76-year-old media tycoon, who is on trial for sex with an underage prostitute, stepped down as prime minister in November 2011 at the height of the euro zone debt crisis, but is now seeking a fifth term in government in the February 24-25 vote.
Bruno told Italian television on Monday evening that she had tried to keep the conversation on a professional level but had been too intimidated to reprimand Berlusconi in public due to his position of power and the presence of senior staff.
In the interview, the married mother-of-one said she had been offended and embarrassed and demanded the apology.
Berlusconi did apologise in an interview on Radio 105 on Tuesday, but also said that Bruno had seemed to enjoy herself at the time.
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